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Deuteronomy 23:17

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— There shall be no prostitute amongst the daughters of Israel, nor any Sodomite amongst the sons of Israel.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— There shall be no female devotee of the daughters of Israel,—neither shall there be a male devotee, of the sons of Israel.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— 'There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel;
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— There shalbe no whore of the daughters of Israel, neither shal there be a whore keeper of the sonnes of Israel.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— There shalbe no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a Sodomite of the sonnes of Israel.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, also there shall be no sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— There shall not be a harlot of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a fornicator of the sons of Israel; there shall not be an idolatress of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be an initiated person of the sons of Israel.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— There shall be no whore of the daughters of Yisrael, nor a sodomite of the sons of Yisrael.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
There shall be x1961
(1961) Complement
הָיָה
hayah
{haw-yaw'}
A primitive root (compare H1933); to exist, that is, be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary).
no x3808
(3808) Complement
לֹא
lo'
{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
whore 6948
{6948} Prime
קְדֵשָׁה
q@deshah
{ked-ay-shaw'}
Feminine of H6945; a female devotee (that is, prostitute).
of the daughters 1323
{1323} Prime
בַּת
bath
{bath}
From H1129 (as feminine of H1121); a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively).
x4480
(4480) Complement
מִן
min
{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
of Yiŝrä´ël יִשׂרָאֵל, 3478
{3478} Prime
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisra'el
{yis-raw-ale'}
From H8280 and H0410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity.
nor x3808
(3808) Complement
לֹא
lo'
{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
a sodomite 6945
{6945} Prime
קָדֵשׁ
qadesh
{kaw-dashe'}
From H6942; a (quasi) sacred person, that is, (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry.
of the sons 1121
{1121} Prime
בֵּן
ben
{bane}
From H1129; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like H0001, H0251, etc.).
x4480
(4480) Complement
מִן
min
{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
of Yiŝrä´ël יִשׂרָאֵל. 3478
{3478} Prime
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisra'el
{yis-raw-ale'}
From H8280 and H0410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

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Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Deuteronomy 23:15-25.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Deuteronomy 23:17

No whore — No common prostitute, such as were tolerated and encouraged by the Gentiles, and used even in their religious worship. Not that such practices were allowed to the strangers among them, as is evident from many scriptures and reasons, but that it was in a peculiar manner, and upon special reasons, forbidden to them, as being much more odious in them than in strangers.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
There shall be:
etc. The prohibition in the text, like many others, has no direct application to practices that were common among the Israelites at that time; but was intended to guard them against the enormities which were practised among the surrounding nations.
Deuteronomy 22:21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy 22:29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
Leviticus 19:29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
Proverbs 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;

whore:
or, sodomitess,
Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

sodomite:

Genesis 19:4-5 But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: ... And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where [are] the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
Judges 19:22 [Now] as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, [and] beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
1 Kings 14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
1 Kings 15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
1 Kings 22:46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
2 Kings 23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that [were] by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
Romans 1:27-28 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. ... And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1 Timothy 1:10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Gn 19:4. Lv 19:29. Dt 22:21, 29. Jg 19:22. 1K 14:24; 15:12; 22:46. 2K 23:7. Pv 2:16. Ro 1:26, 27. 1Co 6:9. 1Ti 1:10.

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